Paul Ryan Quotes

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
Paul Ryan

Business, Small, Hair

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
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Greatest, Person, Giving

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
Paul Ryan

Today, Children, Tomorrow

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.
Paul Ryan

Strong, Justice, Person

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
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Successful, Together, Working

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.
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Capitalism, Economics, Corrupt

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.
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Prosperity, Spending, Borrowing

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan

Turn, Safety, Dependence

Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.
Paul Ryan

Him, Before, Serious

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?
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Through, Poverty, Interested

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
Paul Ryan

Government, Goal, Lives

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
Paul Ryan

Change, Hope, Fear

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.
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Money, Successful, Small

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
Paul Ryan

Religion, Happy, Guns

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
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Down, Problem, Keep

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
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Life, Change, Leadership

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
Paul Ryan

Government, Political, Succeed

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
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Money, Full, Jobs

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
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Nature, God, Government

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
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Future, Emotional, Play

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.
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Balance, While, President

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
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Happiness, Government, Liberty

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.
Paul Ryan

Tell, Principles, Polls

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
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Power, Keep, Silent

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
Paul Ryan

Country, Two, Free

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: January 29, 1970

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